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Science fiction

Summary: "In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by placing them in a series of contexts, using the history of science and technology, political and economic history, and cultural theory to develop the means for understanding the unique qualities of the genre."--GoodReads

Record details

ISBN: 0745628923
ISBN: 0745628931 (pbk.)
Physical Description: vii, 305 p. ; 23 cm.
print
Publisher: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Non-fiction Collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-297) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Conditions of emergence -- Britain : the scientific romance and the evolutionary paradigm -- America : pulp fictions and the engineer paradigm -- 1945 : the technocultural conjuncture -- From atomjocks to cultural critique : American SF, 1939-1959 -- 'All that age, horribly dislocated' : England after 1945 -- 1960s -- 1970s -- 1980s -- 1990s.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:	8/1/2013 8/9/2013